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The obscene and vulgar stories in the bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a divine being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to him are repugnant to our ideas of his justice.
-Thomas Paine
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The Obscene And Vulgar Stories In The

Thomas Paine
The obscene and vulgar stories in the bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a divine being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to him are repugnant to our ideas of his justice.
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I imagine like most of us that i'd like obscene amounts of money but the people i met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. really. i mean hideously compromised lives. and i can go anywhere. no one knows who i am.
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